Motivational Quotes

Fear

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

- Canfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Fear

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

Fear is what kills us.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Axiom, Grandma

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Johnson, Samuel

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane